Discourse and human rights violations

Anthonissen, Christine. (Added Author). Blommaert, Jan. (Added Author).

Summary: First published as a Special Issue of the Journal of Language and Politics 5:1 (2006), this collection of papers focuses, from a number of different disciplinary perspectives, on aspects of language and communication in official processes of dealing with traumatic pasts. It is a text that belongs to the genre of talking about pain, about state violence, about uncovering suppressed truths. Linguists and a number of other social scientists investigate discourses, mostly ones generated during hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), scrutinizing them for how trauma.

Record details

ISBN: 9789027292735 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9027292736 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9789027222350 (hb : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9027222355 (hb : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9789027222350 (hb : alk. paper)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (ix, 142 p.)
Publisher: Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	The debate on truth and reconciliation : a survey of literature on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Narrative inequality in the TRC hearings : on the hearability of hidden transcripts / Jan Blommaert, Mary Bock, and Kay McCormick -- Critical discourse analysis as an analytic tool in considering selected, prominent features of TRC testimonies / Christine Anthonissen -- South African novelists and the grand narrative of apartheid / Annie Gagiano -- Linguistic bearings and testimonial practices / Fiona Ross -- History in the making/the making of history : the "German Wehrmacht" in collective and individual memories in Austria / Ruth Wodak.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on print version record.